Famous Quotes & Sayings

Cathy Freeman

I have been told many times that when I win I make my people proud to be Australian. I am Aboriginal, I am one of them and every time I win or am honoured like this it should be an example to Aboriginal people who may think they have nowhere to go but down. But more importantly I am an Australian and I would like to make all Australians feel proud to be Australian. Ours is a truly multicultural society and should be united as such. I would like to believe that my successes are celebrated by all Australians, bringing our nation together.

Chris Copeland

When I see things, I speak my mind. But I'm a quiet leader, if anything.

Chris Christie

I would rather die than be in the United States Senate. I would be bored to death. Could you imagine me, banging around that chamber with 99 other people, asking for a motion on the amendment in the subcommittee? Forget it...You'd watch me just walk out and walk right into the Potomac River and drown. That would be it.

Chris Christie

The President's biggest problem right now is he's gotta tell the truth. And we've seen this in New Jersey. I've told lots of hard truths in New Jersey that people didn't necessarily agree with, but they give you credit for looking them in the eye and telling them the truth.

Chris Christie

But our leaders of today have decided it's more important to be popular, to say and do what's easy, and say yes rather than to say no, when no is what is required.

Chris Bauer

The actor in me always wants to link himself to a leader who's inspired.

Chris Bosh

Leaders set the tone for their peers. Peers look up to them and say, 'They're doing it, so I'm doing it.'

Chris Alexander

We need to EARN the right to be leaders. It is to our peril when we are given things for which we are not qualified. For Believers, we must only engage in activities for which the Lord has called us.

Chinua Achebe

Nigeria is what it is because its leaders are not what they should be.

Chinua Achebe

A functioning, robust democracy requires a healthy educated, participatory followership, and an educated, morally grounded leadership.

Chiang Kai-shek

The sky cannot have two suns.

Chetan Bhagat

We know we are all tarnished, so we doubt everyone else too. It is sad situation, where we need a leader but cannot really trust anyone.

Cheryl Richardson

Leaders stand out. Good leaders succeed. Great leaders make a difference in the world.

Remember you live in a community. You have a responsibility to be accountable to your family and your community as well as yourself.

Charlotte Bunch

We need women leaders. But we need them to have a vision for something.

Chamique Holdsclaw

I'm kind of a quiet leader, and I just try to lead by example. But then sometimes you have to say something.

Charlie Munger

I call myself the assistant cult leader.

Charlie Munger

We want very good leaders who have a lot of power.

Charlie Munger

You have to learn to be a follower before you become a leader.

Charles M. Blow

Great leadership isn’t shaped in the absence of opposition but in the presence of it. Great leaders draw us together by our universal humanity; they galvanize the wills of the willing; they draw clarity from the spigot of chaos.

Charles Henry Parkhurst

Purpose is what gives life meaning.

Charles Handy

Presidents, leaders, to be effective have to represent the whole to the parts and to the world outside. They may live in the centre but they must not be the centre. To reinforce the common sense they must be a constant teacher, ever travelling, ever talking, ever listening, the chief missionary of the common cause.

Benjamin Netanyahu

Every time an Arab leader truly wanted peace, they got it. If the Palestinians truly want peace, we will make peace.

Bob Richards

Strive for perfection - never be content with mediocrity. You don't win until you conquer the little flaws. You don't beat these great ones until your form is perfect. This is true in all of life. A flaw in a product can ruin a business. A personal failing, a little one, can ruin a person's life. Don't be content with mediocrity - strive to live up to the greatest within you.

Bob Richards

It may sound strange, but many champions are made champions by setback. They are champions because they've been hurt. Their experience moved them, and they pulled out this fighting spirit, making them what they are. Sometimes in life, God gives us a difficulty in order to bring out the fighting spirit. Everything that happens to you can happen for good if you have this spirit. The essential thing in life is not in the conquering, but in the fight.

Bob Beauprez

Paul Ryan is a nationally tested leader that is widely known and respected.

Bill Mauldin

If you're a leader, you don't push wet spaghetti, you pull it.

Madeleine Albright

But I do not believe that the world would be entirely different if there were more women leaders. Maybe if everybody in leadership was a woman, you might not get into the conflicts in the first place. But if you watch the women who have made it to the top, they haven't exactly been non-aggressive - including me.

Antonio Villaraigosa

We're going to try new things, folks, ... That's what leadership is all about.

Bernard Law Montgomery

My own definition of leadership is this: The capacity and the will to rally men and women to a common purpose and the character which inspires confidence.

Bernard Law Montgomery

The first duty of a leader is opti­mism. How does your sub­or­di­nate feel after meet­ing with you? Does he feel uplifted? If not, you are not a leader.

Benjamin Hooks

If you think you are leading and turn around to see no one following, then you are just taking a walk.

Bob Latta

I have always been thankful that so many of our countrys greatest leaders and statesmen were able to be on this earth at the same time and place to draft the Constitution.